Hair wave clip



15, 1946. R. c. DAVID 2,409,197

HAIR WAVE CLIP Filed June 5, 1945 I NV ENTOR. xfin ma/vo 4140. B Y

A 77'0/P/VEK Patented Oct. 15, 1946 HAIR WAVE CLIP Raymond C. David, Leominster, Mass, assignor to Delamere Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., a

corporation of Delaware Application June 5, 1945, Serial No. 597,624

3 Claims.

This invention relates to a hair wave clip of the type comprising two pivotally connected jaws for use in waving hair. Devices of this type are provided with handles or finger pieces for manipulating the jaws and a spring for pressing the jaws together.

Heretofore the jaws have generally been pivotally connected by a separate pin that extends through openings in overlapping ear portions of the handles, and are provided with a coil spring mounted on the pin with its ends bearing against the handles, as disclosed, for example, in Patent No. 2,040,807, of May 12, 1936, to A. Goodman.

The operation of assembling the parts of such hair wave clips has been relatively slow and tedious. The ears of the two jaws had first to be lined up, then the pivot pin inserted through the aligned openings in the ears and through the center of the coil spring, and finally the pin had to be headed to prevent its withdrawal.

Furthermore, with use of a coil spring the spring tension is not distributed throughout the length of the handles but only in a restricted area. This is particularly objectionable in the case of Wave clips made of molded plastic material since in some instances the handles tend to become deformed in time with a resulting unsightly appearance.

It is an object of this invention to provide an improved hair wave clip that can be easily and rapidly assembled without use of a separate pivot pin.

Another object of the invention is to provide a construction wherein the spring element bears against the handles throughout substantially their entire length.

I attain these objects, as well as others, by means of the construction hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a face View of the improved hair wave clip;

Fig. 2 is a top plan View thereof;

Fig. 3 is a bottom view;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1, on an enlarged scale;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary sectional view on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4; and

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the spring element.

The device consists of only three parts that are easily assembled and inexpensive to manufacture, namely, two jaw members l0 and II, and a spring element 1 3.

The jaw members may be made of plastic, metal, or other suitable substance, preferably they are made of plastic injection molding. They have substantially parallel arcuate portions [4 between which hair may be gripped when the clip is in its closed position, diverging handles or finger pieces I5 along the middle portion of their upper edges for manipulating the jaws, said handles having overlapped ears 5 and I1, diverging flanges l8 along the length of the lower edges of the portions Hi, and teeth 1 9 on each jaw extending inwardly at an angle to the flange, the teeth of the two jaws being interspaced, with those on one jaw lying substantially parallel to the flange of the other in closed position. The parts above described are all more or less common in hair wave clips of this type.

According to the present improvement the ears it of one handle, preferably the inner of the overlapped ears, are each formed with a short cylindrical stud or boss 23 that projects outwardly and fits into a corresponding opening 2| in the ears ll of the other handle, whereby the two handles are pivotally connected together. While I prefer to form the studs on the inner of the overlapped ears and the openings in the outer ones, the relationship may be reversed.

The spring element l3 may be made of a single piece of spring wire bent to form two substantially parallel legs 22 and a connecting leg 23. While the spring is preferably of Z or S shape, it may be of any other suitable shape having substantially parallel leg portions 22.

The legs 22 are received in grooves 24 formed in the inner faces of the handles [5, and, as seen in Fig. 2, they extend throughout substantially the entire length of the handles, thus distributing the spring pressure over the length of the handles. The overall width of the spring is greater than the spacing between the grooves of the two handles. By merely compressing the spring it may be easily snapped into place in the grooves.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that my invention provides an improved hair Wave clip consisting of a minimum number of parts that can be easily and quickly assembled.

What I claim is:

l. A hair wave clip comprising two pivotally connected jaws each having a handle, a longitudinal groove in the inner face of each handle, and a spring disposed between the handles in a plane substantially parallel to the pivotal axis of the jaws, said spring having two substantially parallel legs and a connecting portion, the parallel legs being freely held in the grooves of the handles.

2. A hair wave clip comprising a pair of jaws each having a handle formed with a longitudinal groove in its inner face, the two handles hav ing overlapped ears, a stud on each ear of one handle fitting into an opening in each ear of the other handle to connect the two jaws pivotally together, and. a spring having two substantially parallel legs and a connecting portion disposed between the handles in a plane substantially parallel to the pivotal axis of the jaws, the parallel legs being freely held in the grooves of the bandles.

3. A hair wave clip comprising two pivotally connected jaws each having a handle, a spring disposed between the handles in a plane substantially parallel to the pivotal axis of the jaws, said spring having two substantially parallel legs and a connecting portion, the parallel legs bearing against the inner surface of the handles, and locating means on the inner surface of each handle to hold the spring freely in position and prevent 10 accidental displacement thereof.

RAYMOND C. DAVID. 

